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...Carter put it last week in a kind of warmup talk to the Communications Workers of America at a White House reception, "The inflation rate is creeping up. And unless we stand firm, cut out waste, have a sound economy, stabilize the dollar, have the energy package passed, cut down unnecessary spending and hold down the budget deficit, we are all going to be robbed of the [economic] improvements we made with your help during the last year...
...housewives) had been checking the prices of some products that hardly anyone buys any more: pedal pushers, garter belts, bobby pins. Such obsolete articles were thrown out of the 400-item market basket and many newer ones substituted. The BLS shoppers will now price, for example, joggers' warmup suits, pocket calculators, birth control pills and wine...
...springy 104 Ibs., sounds like a boot camp instructor drilling raw recruits. "Ready, gouge! Ready, gouge!" she shouted one afternoon last week. "Now follow with the knee in the groin. G-o-o-o-o-d." Conroy insists that her students wear ordinary street clothes rather than leotards or warmup suits. "Those are not," she notes, "what they would be wearing during an attempted rape...
...Henry Gonzalez Day in San Antonio in 1965. Nixon beside China's Great Wall in 1972. So it is inevitable that Jimmy Carter will make a run at the record. He probably did not break it in his televised energy talk last week, but it was a commendable warmup. The President elbowed aside Mulligan's Stew for 20 prime minutes and delivered his own hash. He said nothing new. He smiled as he described an energyless catastrophe. He issued this clarion call: "All of us in government need your help." And he explained further. "These are serious problems...
Clake and captain Ditzler agreed that this fall "was only a warmup. The real season begins in the spring." Ditzler added, "We've made our mark in the Boston area. Now we want to work hard this winter and branch out next season...